Sentences with phrase «fragile life form»

LUCA lived around 4 billion years ago — a tiny, fragile life form that is the direct ancestor of every single living thing, from aardvarks to zebras.

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It's also interesting for depicting how fragile the continued existence of life on Earth is when a simple microscopic life form can quickly regenerate and spread, causing potential calamity to anyone unlucky enough to come into contact with it.

20th Century Women is a poignant love letter to the people who raise us — and the times that form us — as this makeshift family forges fragile connections that will mystify and inspire them through their lives.

Last, please choose a song for your next speech that does not invite parochialisms and dangerous forms of patriotism, but that fuels our internal drive to build bridges of solidarity, to reach out to others beyond geo - political borders, to expect and act towards a bright prospect for ALL children (and elderly people, and adults) EVERYWHERE (regardless of place of birth, faith, biological differences, inherited circumstances or life choices), a song that may remind us of the power and indispensability of plurality as an integral part of the collective future we share — together in one finite and fragile planet.

Her four previous books form a permanent record of the temporary habitats that Manhattan's homeless individuals created for themselves in public parks, vacant lots, abandoned buildings, along the waterfronts and beneath the city's streets: The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); Fragile Dwelling (Aperture); Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives, co-authored with Diana Balmori (Yale Press); and Glass House (Penn State Press).

This web of resistance also stands as a universal metaphor for life - a silken thread spun from one's own body and connected from a central core to form a network that is as strong as it is fragile, permeable, and transparent.

Is Earth really so fragile that a few hundredths of a percent of its atmosphere can doom any one era of its life forms?